HRM303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Environment, Human Resource Management, Nonunion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM303
• Professor: Vince Di Ruzza

Document Summary

Industrial relations: study of employment in union and non-union organizations. Labour relations: all aspects of union management relationship, including establishment of union bargaining rights, negotiation process and administration of collective agreement. Collective bargaining: entire relationship between a union and employer, including administration of collective agreement. Human resource management: set of interrelated activities that plans human resource needs and attracts, selects and maintains an organization"s employees. Labour relations can be part of this but in larger companies, they have their separate department for labour relations. Labour relation specialists more inclined to think employees interests and management interests are not the same and employees seek to protect interests through union. Employee relations: encompasses activities and processes aimed at maintaining a productive workplace while meeting the needs of employees. Some distinguish by using employee relations to refer to non union employees and labour relations to refer to unionized employees. Common law: refers to rules of law that originate from decision of judges.